Driver’s fatal medical emergency causes Lake Shore Dr. crash
Southbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive were closed from the Hollywood to Belmont exits Thursday after an 80-year-old man suffered a fatal medical emergency and crashed into a guardrail.
Paramedics responded to a crash about 2:20 p.m. at that location and treated the man, according to Chicago Fire Dept. spokesman Larry Merritt. The man hit a guardrail, spun out and blocked southbound traffic, Chicago police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. All lanes were open again by 6:30 p.m., police said.
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Woman shot dead in Hammond mobile home park was also shot last year in same location: police
A 55-year-old Hammond woman shot dead in a mobile home early Thursday in northwest Indiana was previously wounded in a shooting months ago in the same home.
Sylvia Williams was found shot about 7:25 a.m. at the Sheffield Estates mobile home park at 3600 Sheffield Ave. in Hammond, according to Hammond police Lt. Steve Kellogg. The shooting happened inside a home and was reported to police by a relative, Kellogg said. She was pronounced dead at a hospital at 8:15 a.m., the Lake County coroner’s office said. Williams died of gunshot wounds, and her death was ruled a homicide.
No one is in custody, Kellogg said. Williams was wounded in separate shooting in the same location on Nov. 1, 2019, Kellogg said. She was treated for two gunshot wounds in a shooting that was considered “domestic related,” he said.
Charles Goforth, 56, was charged with attempted murder in that shooting, but was released after posting a $7,945 bond, according to police and county records.
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Jail detainees fight on bus
Two detainees of Cook County Jail treated for injuries after a fight broke out Tuesday on a bus en route to the Skokie Courthouse in the north suburbs.
The bus was transporting 45 male detainees about 10 a.m. when three began fighting with two others, the Cook County sheriff ’s office said in a statement. When the bus arrived at the courthouse, two were taken to Skokie Hospital for treatment, the sheriff ’s office said. They were released and transferred to their court hearings.
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